Hijacked airliner lands in Sicily in Beirut hijack
A Jordanian Royal Alia airliner with 57 to 65 passengers and nine to 17 crew landed at Palermo after being denied landing in Tunis and refueled in Larnaca. The plane carried two Americans including Landrey Slade and his son William. hijackers reported threats to blow up the jet if landing were blocked. Security forces sealed the aircraft as details on hijackers and passenger counts varied in early reports.
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Beirut
Sicily
Tunis
Mounib Toukan
Alia
Amman
Palermo
Punta Rassi
Mickey Gurdus
ANSA
Toukan
George Hasianastasiou
Ministry of Communications
Larnaca
Royal Jordanian Airlines
Hajianastasiou
Brazil
Dominica
Italy
Sri Lanka
Tel Aviv
Jordan
Tunisia
Tunis- Carthage
Landrey Slade
American University of Beirut
William
Radwan Mawlawi
Slade
Thomas Sutherland
Odessa home sales dip in May as prices fall
Odessa Realtors report fewer May sales and lower prices with 66 citywide deals down 15.4 percent from April and 24.1 percent from May 1984. The average price for 66 homes was 59 927, down from April and the year age average. No new homes sold, while brokers noted buyers thinning from interest rates drop cuts monthly payments.
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Odessa Realtors
Virgil Trower
Trower Realtors
Odessa Board of Realtors
Realtors Group
Trower
Odessa
Ray Hennagh
Krig Radio
Hennagirs
Maple Ave
Reagan warns U S may abandon SALT II if Soviets fail
President Reagan says the United States will not undercut the 1979 SALT I framework and may reverse course this fall if Soviet violations persist. He plans to keep a weapons program that could violate SALT II and will decide case by case whether to stay within treaty limits. The fact sheet admits little hope for a Soviet turnaround and notes continued violations.
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Washington
Reagan
U.S
Soviet Union
Administration cites Soviet SALT II violations and ABM concerns
Washington reports a pattern of Soviet violations. Observed acts include testing and deploying the SS X-25 ICBM, hiding radio signals during tests, and probable breach of SS-16 limits. The White House cites ABM treaty breaches via a large Krasnoyarsk radar and mobile ABM development, signaling broad non compliance worries.
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Washington
Reagan
White House
Soviet Union
Krasnoyarsk
Siberia
Peace Committee Plan Aims to Heal Baptist Rift
In Dallas AP reports a plan to form an 18 member peace committee from fundamentalists and moderates plus a 19th member the new SBC president to work a year to resolve conflicts in the 14.3 million member Southern Baptist Convention. The nationwide vote follows a heated leadership contest between Charles F. Stanley and W. Winfred Moore as delegates prepared for an historic gathering.
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Dallas
Charles Pickering
Mississippi Baptist Convention
Franklin Paschal
Nashville
Southern Baptist Convention
Paschal
Atlanta
Charles F. Stanley
W. Winfred Moore
Amarillo
Texas
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Associated Press
Lebanon
Cyprus
Africa
Lares, Tunisia
Libya
Lalermo
Greece
Mediterranean
Turkey
Egypt
David Bean
Frank
Connie Bean
E. 30Th St
David
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